*Only the version downloaded with help of the Installation Assistant with Parallels Desktop.

** Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.

Note: Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list can work as well. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install an operating system of your choice. If it doesn't work and you believe it should be supported, let us know at Parallels Forum.

Parallels Tools for Linux require X Window System version 1.15–1.20 and Linux Kernel version 2.6.29–5.1.

Additional disk space for virtual machines (varies on operating system and applications installed, e.g. at least 16GB is required for Windows 10)

SSD drive is recommended for better performance

Internet connection for product activation and select features

Mac Software:

macOS Mojave 10.14

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 or later

macOS Sierra 10.12.6 or later

OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 or later

Guest Operating Systems:

Windows 10

Windows 8.1

Windows 8

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)

Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)

Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise (SP0-SP2)

Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)

Windows XP (SP0-SP3)

Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Windows 2000 Server SP4

MS-DOS 6.22 **

Boot2Docker

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 6, 5

CentOS Linux 7, 6, 5

Fedora Linux 29, 28, 27, 26

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 17.10, 16.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS

Debian GNU/Linux 9.4, 9, 8, 7

Suse Linux Enterprise 12 SP3, 11 SP3, 11 SP2

OpenSUSE Linux 15, 42.3, 13.2, 13.1, 12.3

Linux Mint 19, 18, 17

Kali 2018.2, 2018.1, 2

Elementary OS 5.0, 0.4

Manjaro 17

Mageia 6, 5, 4, 3

Gentoo Linux **

Solaris 11.3, 11, 10 **

openBSD 6 **

FreeBSD 11.1, 10, 10, 9, 8 **

openVZ 7

eComStation 2, 1.2 **

ReactOS 0.4 **

Android OS*

macOS Mojave 10.14.x

macOS High Sierra 10.13.x

macOS Sierra 10.12.x

OS X El Capitan 10.11.x

OS X Yosemite 10.10.x

OS X Mavericks 10.9.x

OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x

OS X Lion 10.7.x

OS X Lion Server 10.7.x

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x

*Only the one downloaded with help of Installation Assistant.

**Parallels tools are not available for this operating system

Note:
Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list can work as well. They are not on the list because we didn't test them in our lab yet or we found some critical issues.
You can download Parallels Desktop Trial here and install an operating system of your choice and if it doesn't work and you believe it should be supported, let us know at Parallels Forum.

Note: Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list can work as well. They are not on the list because we didn't test them in our lab or found some critical issues. You can download Parallels Desktop Trial here and install an operating system of your choice. If it doesn't work and you believe it should be supported, let us know at Parallels Forum.